In the Media

"Professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun tracking the behavior of prices for goods sold by online retailers on the internet in something called the 'Billion Prices Project.'”

"A Boston company called Greenbean Recycle is trying to make the act of keeping bottles and cans out of the landfill into a fun, competitive and engaging game for students at MIT."

"What use would it be to weigh a single living cell? Microscopic scales that do just that may help doctors to predict how a person's cancer will respond to anti-cancer drugs."

"Mitchel Resnick, a professor of learning research at M.I.T.’s Media Lab who helps run the Scratch project, said that Scratch is effective with children because it fosters collaboration."

"In a way, we’re in the process of telling our future innovation team to get off the playing field. Since U.S. economic growth is predominately based on our ability to innovate, we may be undermining our own future." -MIT's William B. Bonvillian

"Eventually, believable 3-D won’t require specs at all."

"Boston takes it to an extreme with its dozens of college campuses that are to a surprising and admirable degree open to everyone."

"So many students turned out to see the sweatshirted billionaire outside a university library that campus officials had to set up temporary barriers to separate him from his audience."

"Many colleges are teaching students what they should do in emergency situations, so they can more quickly react when something happens."

"Scientific American reports how the Collaborative Chronic Care Network, or C3N, a portal developed by an MIT graduate student, is engaging teenage Crohn’s disease patients in 'mini clinical trials.'”

“Most people waste their time, so the question is, can a work-oriented site become extremely popular, when many people are not as invested in productivity?” -MIT Media Lab Director Joichi Ito

"It is not unusual for Boeing, the third-largest aerospace and defense contractor in the world, to call on Paul Lagace at his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the 54-year-old Wilmington resident is a tenured professor of aeronautics and astronautics."

"According to an economic analysis by the Hamilton Project, a research group in Washington, those laid off from long-term jobs between October 2008 and April 2009 are likely to lose a total of $774 billion in earnings over the next 25 years, even if they get new jobs."

"While technological progress may cause workers with out-dated skills to become redundant, the past two centuries have shown that the idea that increasing productivity leads axiomatically to widespread unemployment is nonsense."

"In the movies, robots are everywhere, boxing and shooting and running and flying and generally outdoing humans at every turn. In reality, the humanoid robot has a long way to go."